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Period? I have no idea what you're talking about there. My point in short: Why can't FreeBSD show something on a large resolution that the graphics hardware is capable of but X.org can, with a small amount of required data? I'm not complaining...

I usually start X.org to an empty screen on max monitor resolution. All open source only. No binary drivers. It doesn't need a lot of information. I think FreeBSD should be able to do this too because it's part of the graphics card capabilities...

TBH, a battery pack is probably a better option if you do manage to get charging to work fast enough with the laptop, as you're still putting additional stress on the power system and/or battery. If you're plugging in, then just get a decent...

Oh ick! A random thought. GitHub uses your stuff to train Ai. Let's say I opt-out of the Ai stuff but someone who didn't opt-out forks my repo, does that mean Ai still digests/uses my stuff? ...but as I type that, it makes more sense that GitHub...

The issue is that nobody is going through and tracking where the stuff that isn't general is coming from. It's one thing to take the typical way of opening and writing to a file from an AI, there's likely nothing in that which is at all creative...

I think the DE is just some external programs but the primary graphics device of a computer should be able to show a pixel on all its display resolutions before the suppprt can be considered complete. Not having a default system DE integrated...

It seems to be fixed.

This is how I switched from net/gitup to devel/git If there's a cleaner or more efficient method, I'm all ears. I only care about the latest commits (the same way gitup works): git clone --depth 1 https://git.freebsd.org/ports.git /usr/ports...

It is perfectly safe to : rm -vfR /usr/src (just backup your kernel config file). It is perfectly safe to rm -vfR /usr/ports Config is in /var/db/ports.

Nothing will be lost, configs are stored in /var/db/ports If you just need cloning gitoxide (gix) is a lot faster than git

This is how I switched from net/gitup to devel/git If there's a cleaner or more efficient method, I'm all ears. I only care about the latest commits (the same way gitup works): git clone --depth 1 https://git.freebsd.org/ports.git /usr/ports...

It is perfectly safe to : rm -vfR /usr/src (just backup your kernel config file). It is perfectly safe to rm -vfR /usr/ports Config is in /var/db/ports.

Nothing will be lost, configs are stored in /var/db/ports If you just need cloning gitoxide (gix) is a lot faster than git

This is how I switched from net/gitup to devel/git If there's a cleaner or more efficient method, I'm all ears. I only care about the latest commits (the same way gitup works): git clone --depth 1 https://git.freebsd.org/ports.git /usr/ports...

I have used net/gitup for updating the ports tree and now want to move to devel/git instead. Is it completely safe to delete the /usr/ports directory before running # git clone https://git.freebsd.org/ports.git /usr/ports? E.g what will happen...

This is how I switched from net/gitup to devel/git If there's a cleaner or more efficient method, I'm all ears. I only care about the latest commits (the same way gitup works): git clone --depth 1 https://git.freebsd.org/ports.git /usr/ports...

Very cool. Finally a Raspberry Pi wifi driver for FreeBSD. I wonder how it compares to OpenBSD/NetBSD's offering. You mentioned in the repo quite a lot of AI generation? How was the experience? Was it as straight forward as, here is some code...

Ilovehotdog, I get the impression that you're relatively new to FreeBSD. There's a discussion here about the desktop, but one point made several times is that even if it is included, it will just be an option. So, even if it included an...

You could read the quarterly status reports from time to time. https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2026-01-2026-03

Thanks for the excellent write-up, it is insightful and I am sure it will be of benefit to others to find this thread.

Hi, For my pi I needed a button to safely shut it down. Found the gpio-shutdown overlay you can add in config.txt. This adds some stuff in the device tree. This little driver makes use of that. Code is here. Should I just leave it there, or add...

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JohnK thanks for the link. Good stuff. Lifted this from that page, I think it describes things clearly, especially the bolded part. Given this, in order for code produced with AI to be accepted, it must either be trivial enough to be not...

Check this very important part Use a part of permissively licensed code - you have to insert their license verbatim, which includes authors name and such. Check out the About/Licence parts on the Android or iPhone, what a huge list it is. LLMs...

May be of interest: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Contributing#use-of-ai

Btw. very good article, worth spreading around. In essence it makes all AI affairs derivative work and the AI user is now in position to prove his human input outweighs the machine output in order to be assigned a property status. This should...

Kronos Device - Distress Signal View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZPX4p2JOuI

https://legallayer.substack.com/p/who-owns-the-claude-code-wrote

This is true but theft by any means is still theft.

There are three distinct things here : 1) the contract between employer and employee regarding IP 2) the legitimacy of the source code that was used to train the model 3) the legitimacy of any source code dynamically fetched in by means of LLM...

Neither. Its not a distribution but an entire OS. It holds all the cards and can't be pulled around by all the little projects that make it up. However, smaller distributions (like GhostBSD) can certainly be made from it.

homeadm Your argument is rather poor. AI (Claude) is owned by Anthropic which is a legal entity and might, one day, be sued over its AI stealing code. Of course, when one publishes their code online, they leave themselves open to theft but...

You have a translation rule somewhere, that redirects an incoming connection on $ext_if to 10.10.0.2:5101. External firewall? Are you trying to do a double NAT (or redirection) here?

Can't see the logic of that. Which of those Gnome components need what files or devices to exist? Same for systemd. Are there any binary programs involved? I'm no linux user but what's a significant difference between linux systemd and FreeBSD...

Im using mstsc and connect from outside to the server... clear_tmp_enable="YES" syslogd_flags="-ss" hostname="FB-FSN-FW02" keymap="de.acc.kbd" ifconfig_vtnet0="inet 10.10.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.252 up" defaultrouter="10.10.0.1"...

I would suggest putting everything in one pf.conf, at least until you figure out how the rules are processed.

FreeBSD hasn't adopted X for that matter. It's an option, not a requirement. Wayland would be the same way. An option, not a requirement. Now, systemd is a different story.

How are you testing it?

Also, other rules are entirely skipped. rdr pass on $ext_if proto tcp from any to 1.2.3.4 port 13389 -> 192.168.10.3 port 3389 block in on $ext_if from $badguys to ($ext_if) The block rule will never get evaluated. If the pass modifier...

/pkg/usr/local/etc/gitup.conf Can fetch with success from GH: "ports" : { "host" : "github.com", "repository" : "/freebsd/freebsd-ports.git", "branch" : "main"...

I beg to disagree. This reminds me the typical "use systemd or else...", which is the one and only "argument" systemd lovers have. It basically says use systemd or get a PDP-11. Even though systemd plagued the Linux world, there are systemd-free...

Rebooting is for wimps.

Didn't it come from Baron von Munchausen, bootstrappinhg himself out of a well?

What I remember from 2010, it was politicans "who are so used to lying that it is their nature".

Oh, with regards to building from source (which is what you're going to need to do); https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/cutting-edge/#makeworld And also build, src.conf and make.conf. Yes, yes, I know, pkgbase exist. But I believe it's...

There's no pass rule for port 21. Also # FTP proxy rdr on $int_if proto tcp from $int_if to any port 21 -> 127.0.0.1 port 8021 Translate traffic incoming on the $int_if with a source address of $int_if? That's exactly nothing, packets with...

You should probably try to build a -STABLE version first. Get some experience. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/topics-about-unsupported-freebsd-versions.40469/

What will I do if KDE no longer supports FreeBSD, if ever? Nothing, because I don't use it. If I were using it, I would simply use one of more than a dozen other desktop environment.

The future of freebsd, I hope, is to continue to be a free operating system, that is free as in freedom, which implies free as in zero cost, free as in free speech, and freedom from undesired content shoved in front of you like ads in the start...

Time for a joke, switch to Ubuntu my friend.